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300 Iranian Refugees Step Forward for Jesus Christ at Leading The Way Revival by Dr. Michael Youssef

Dr. Michael Youssef and his son Jonathan ministered God's love to a church of Iranian refugees on the second day of the Leading The Way Revival in Indonesia in one of the world's largest Muslim nations on Friday, with 300 people reportedly answering a call to commit to Jesus Christ at the ...
New Computer Attacks Come From Iran Officials Say

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India likely to get another US waiver for oil imports from Iran

John Kerry will make his first visit to India since assuming office as the US Secretary of State to take up the dialogue at a time when the Indo-US relationship is on a low-energy ...
Kerry Tehran impedes election

TEL AVIV -- Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate representative ...
Iran denies having forces in Syria

/enpproperty--> Iran said on Friday it has no forces in Syria supporting President Bashar al-Assad's army, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Teheran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. "The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by ...

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Iranian drones over Bahrain and Syria

ARE we going to experience a new twist in our encounter with Iran? I’m afraid yes. We anticipate a political and militant escalation as we hear the news of a surveillance drone being shot down over the Bahraini airspace. A similar drone was shot down in Al-Qussayr in Syria, according to the opposition claim. If that is true, I mean if the Iranians have the audacity to send drones to ...
Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men

FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...
U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election

United States Friday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and ...
Iranian Filmmaker Presents Secret Film At Cannes

An Iranian director sentenced to prison in 2010 for antigovernment propaganda has appeared at the Cannes film festival for the screening of a new film about censorship, which he shot in secret in Iran. The circumstances of Mohammad Rasoulof's visit to Cannes on May 24 and the location where he now lives remain strictly confidential. He was arrested with fellow director Jafar Panahi ...
Iran Prepares Itself for June Presidential Vote By Stepping Up Security Measures

Iranian authorities are doing their utmost to ensure that there is no repeat of the daily unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election. (file ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Iran upgrading nuclear program: IAEA

Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports.

According to the report, the concern of the West lies in the fact that uranium enrichment will be even more dangerous as it is further advanced than the reactor and already has the capacity to enrich to weapons-grade uranium.

The IAEA said that Tehran had installed close to 700 high-tech centrifuges used for uranium enrichment, which can produce the core of nuclear weapons.

It also said that Tehran had added hundreds of older-generation machines at its main enrichment site to bring the total number to more than 13,000.

West critics say that the reactor at Arak, in central Iran, will be able to produce plutonium for several bombs a year once it starts up.

However, Iran denies that either its enrichment program or the reactor will be used to make nuclear arms despite IAEA's claims that the Iranian technicians already had taken delivery of a huge reactor vessel to contain the facility's fuel. ...